On this day in literature
September 1
In literary history
- 1939Germany invaded Poland, and W.H. Auden gave a poem the date for a title. He spent decades unwriting it, cutting the stanza that promised we must love one another or die, then altering that line to and die, then calling the poem trash he was ashamed to have written.
Writers born on September 1
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875)